Air Transat will refuse boarding...
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Warning PCR test will be required to enter Canada with in 3 days of arrival
Point is rejection... doesn’t matter what country...FYI pop west jet rejected passengers
Harleysrock flew yesterday. He posted on Facebook that WestJet will accept CMC and Bournigal, but appears Air Transat won’t accept CMC
AG (In the AG-PCR test) means Antigen Test. That shows if you already had CV19 because it tests for the Antigens the body builds up.
It is a quicker and cheaper test than an RT-PCR test which determines if you are contagious.
An RT-PCR test is the best widely available test to determine if someone has active and transmittable CV19.
An RT-PCR test is described below. It takes time to analyze the results. I have seen numbers of between 4 to 8 hours per test.
So in the DR it is highly unlikely to be done quickly and why places are quoting a 72 hour time for results.
Understanding The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test
The COVID-19 RT-PCR test also came out which you must have heard by now.
chemistryjunction.com
People using CMC's current AG-PCR test to get on planes to Canada are "lucky", eh?
I very much doubt Canada wants anything but the RT-PCR test.
You’re right, sorry:
“To those Canadians that need to know air transat would have accepted both my bournigal test (which goes through referncia and takes longer) the RT-PCR and the other test at CMC the AG PCR
I asked at the 2 Checkpoints where it was needed to be shown and said it was fine but at the check in the lady said the Bournigal RT-PCR is better lol. Westjet will not take the AG PCR from Cmc that I know for sure. Not telling anyone to rely solely on the CMC test but just thought I would share.”
So there are miracles from time to time.
And others posted the opposite was true on FB. Others had posted AirTransat accepted the incorrect CMC test, but WestJet would not accept the incorrect CMC test,
Odd eh? Ah. I see that was corrected in a post just above mine that AirTransat currently lets the people with the wrong tests fly and WestJet does not.
They had ag pcr test that’s why turned away... RT-pcr is fine..
As of January 7, 2021, Transport Canada requires that all guests entering Canada from international destinations, 5 years of age and over, to present a negative COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) test result before boarding. The test will supplement, not replace, the requirements for health questionnaires, temperature checks and face masks.
To comply with this regulation, guests will be required to present a negative PCR or RT-LAMP test at check-in and Canada Customs, taken within 72 hours from their scheduled departure time. Please allow extra time to check in.
Im 100% sure air Transat employees here will get re-educated on acceptable papers...
For boarding plane yes... entering country under those papers is toilet paper regardless of story ..off you go to hotel until you tested and verified negative at your expense.. simple enough.. no different then airport checking you have passport..
Still not the way I read the requirements. They specifically state a PCR or RT-LAMP test is acceptable. The RT-LAMP test is the newest version of the RT-PCR test, much easier to administer and quicker results. No where does it say the AG-PCR test is unacceptable. The only requirement is that it be done within 72 hours before you board your flight.
The confusion exists because this new requirement has been rapidly downloaded on the airlines and they are arbitrarily deciding what’s acceptable to board their flights. Hopefully this confusion is clarified by the time I head down late February or early March.
This is the problem, getting factual information on what is happening at airport checkin and at immigration back in Canada. If you go to the clinics listed as approved and if you get the right test supposedly everything will go smoothly. However, there is no guarantee that these labs can get you the results in time or provide them in an acceptable format (paper copy of results). It's not even clear if just anyone can walk in off the street at these labs in Puerto Plata and get a test on demand. Expecting travelers who may not speak Spanish well to contact these labs and get instructions is expecting a bit much. I don't know how we are going to be able to clear up the confusion. CMC in Sosua is not one of the listed labs and the AG-PCR test is not one of the approved tests so anything you do that involves CMC at this point in time would seem to set you up for a problem getting on your flight here in the DR or possibly at immigration once you arrive in Canada. Anyone carted off to quarantine for having an improper test is not going to be logging onto DR1 to tell their story anytime soon.
Documentation of a negative laboratory test result must be presented to the airline prior to boarding a flight to Canada. The test must be performed using a COVID-19 molecular polymerase chain reaction (or PCR) test and must be taken within 96 hours prior to the traveler’s scheduled departure to Canada.
Copied off the letter sent to me by the Canadian Embassy today.
Copied off the letter sent to me by the Canadian Embassy today.
If you get an RT-PCR test within the allotted amount of time you will be fine.
Well shit now you need test to go back to USA also :0
Travelers boarding international flights to the US will need proof of negative COVID-19 test, CDC says
Starting Jan. 26, the CDC will require universal COVID testing for all passengers on international flights to the U.S.
www.usatoday.com